Coates has a lot of good things to say about the first black president but is also clear-eyed in his criticism: "In his optimism about America, Obama underestimated the hatred of those bent on destroying him," tweets the New York Times' Brent Staples, paraphrasing one of the central themes of the article.

Elsewhere, Nell Gluckman of American Laywer says, "I wish everybody could all get just a little time off work to finish reading this."

And finally, Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch has a telling remark amid an insanely packed day of news (as we'll see in a moment): "Pretty remarkable that this @tanehisicoates piece can cut through everything and trend today."

"Let's stop with how bad 2016 was for a minute to recognize that Assad and Russia are committing serious war crimes," tweets Ren LaForme of Poynter.

And finally, one of the most shared social media posts today is a video uploaded by Channel 4 News featuring the U.S.'s Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, who had strong words for the international community the wake of the massacre:

"Is there literally nothing that can shame you?"

The perfect weapon

That's how the New York Times' Eric Lipton, David Sanger, and Scott Shanedescribe Russia's cyberpower efforts which, according to sources inside and outside the U.S. government, was utilized with the goal of tilting the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. (20,000 shares).

"Anyone who cares about democracy, regardless of party, should shake with rage upon reading this stunning NYT scoop," tweetsLydia Polgreen.

"Only now with election over did all the key players targeted in Russian hack agree to tell their stories," tweets Lipton himself. "Here it is."

"Something that seemed a little paranoid to me before all of a sudden seems potentially realistic," says one source in Brady Dennis' latest Washington Post piece that's alarming journalists and scientists alike on Twitter: "Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearingi it might vanish under Trump."

More from the New York Times' Shane and Lipton, the latter of whom calls it "The undercovered story of the 2016 election hacks": Democratic House candidates were also the targets of Russian hacks, the duo report.

"Mark Zuckerberg has nio backbone," tweetsKate Knibbs of The Ringer in response to Nitasha Tiku's Buzzfeed scoop that a Facebook spokesperson has called Trump's rumored Muslim registry—which many Silicon Valley engineers have vowed not to build—is merely a "straw man," implying that reporters' questions on the issue should not be answered.

According to the Washington Post's Joe Davidson, the U.S. Department of Energy will not be complying with Donald Trump's requests for the names of climate change workers, "who remain worried," writes Davidson.

According to the Los Angeles Times, "Growing Pains" star Alan Thicke has passed away at the age of 69. He suffered a fatal heart attack while playing hockey with his son. "2016 is just the worst," tweetsJoe Solomon of CBS Sports.

Tonight there was an video AMA conversation between Reddit cofounders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, joined by Twitch cofounders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. Watch it here on Twitch.

And finally, on a (somewhat) lighter note, read Gizmodo's Alana Levinson on the latest in Things That Aren't Unreasonable For Men To Stop Doing: "Manthreading."

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